Excavations 2018

This is a temporary blog for presenting the excavations of 2018 at Perdigões. Posts from 2011 to 2017 are still available.

Saturday, 7 April 2018

0239 - 6th day / 6º dia

This is how the ploughing dislocated and brought up part of the
stone wall of the tholos type structure. The rows are at least seven, and the
bottom stones could already be in place, although partially broken. This is
giving hope that the structure may be preserved at the base. The rarity of
materials continues, but human skull fragments and some teeth seam to confirm
we are in presence of a funerary structure.

The stones of schist are not local and had to be brought
from outside. The nearest schist is 5km away, but we want to determine with
more precision the provenance of these stones. And also of the schist slabs of
Tombs 1 and 2, already excavated. They are different kinds of schist. Since we have been determining the strontium (Sr)
values for several schist areas around the Ribeira do Álamo valley, we will try
Sr to see if we can detect provenances. Work to be done in the context of the ongoing
project on mobility of humans, animals, and objects at Perdigões.